76 HOMOPTERA 



i6. iiova Goding, Ent. News III : 110(1892). United States. 



17. prcecox Burmeister, Rev. Silb. IV : 173. 9(i836). Mexico. 



18. pulchella Ball, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. XLVI : 28 (1933). United States. 



19. punctata Fowler, B. C. A. II : 5j. 6 (1895). Mexico. 



20. squarus Fairmaire, Rev. Memb. 482. i5 (1846). Brazil. 



21. strigifroHS Fairmaire, Rev. Memb. 481. 8 (1846). Mexico. 



22. varians Fowler, B. C. A. II : 56. 5(1895). Mexico. 



23. zonifera Butler, Cist. Ent. II : 339. 5 (1878). Mexico. 



33. GENUS ALOBIA STAL 



Alobia Stal, Hem. Fabr. II : 32 (1869). 



Chapacters : This genus, as its name would suggest, is to be separated from the other genera 

 of the tribe by the absence of the characteristic postocular lobes on the inferior margin of the pronotum 

 behind the head. It was erected for the accommodation of a single species, alutacea, which Stal described 

 at the same time at which he designated the genus. We have never seen this species, and, in fact, some 

 authors have considered it a synonym oi Dariiis olivacea Fabricius, which would of course invalidate Alobia. 

 However we have not seen a specimen ololivacea which did not show the postocular lobes nor any speci- 

 mens which seemed to approach thiit condition. Since alutacea, as described by Stal, has this very pecu- 

 liar and distinguishing character, we beheve that it should be recognized as representing the subdivision 

 which he indicates. But since no material is available as a basis for a generic description, we can do 

 no more than to quote Stars own words as foUows : 



« Corpore crassiusculo, remote subsericeo capite; obtusissimo, truncato. anteoculos haud 

 producto; oceUis inter se et ab oculis fere aeque longe distantibus; thorace alutaceo vel minutis- 

 sime granulato, haud punctato, tegmina fere tota tegente, margine antico nuUibi calloso; corio 

 venis longitudinalibus duabus e basi emissis, uhiari longe ante medium, radiali nonnihil pone 

 medium corii furcatis, area discoidali interiore inter ramos venae ulnaris jacente elongatissimi ; 

 prostethio pone oculos lobo destituto. » 



Type alutacea Stal. 



Geographical distpibution : The type species as indicated by Stal is the only known repre- 

 sentative of the genus. It is recorded as follows : 

 I. alutacea Stal, Hem. Fabr. II : 32 (1869). Surinam. 



34. GenuS CYPHOTES BURMEISTER 



Cyphotes Burmeister, Handb. Ent. II : 143 (i835). 



Characteps : This is a genus of doubtful position and of questionable standing. From Bur- 

 meister's meager description anJ the position which he gave it in his systematic table, we formerly (1927) 

 considered it as one of the Smiliinae but Goding has since discovered a second species which definitely 

 places the genus in the position here indicated in the subfamily Darninae. 



According to the original description and to the characters assigned to it by Goding, the genus 

 is to be recognized particularly by the oblique position of the head and the trinodose posterior process. 



